Removing "create content" link and creating category links

Just logout as admin and you will see the 'create content' link is disappeared. Your visitors will not see that unless they login as admin.

Unfortunately drupal does not come (anymore) with a separated backend and frontend structure. If you really like this feature, search the forum for some work-arounds -- it is possible to make 2 virtual hosts one for frontend and one for backend, then you need to specify what to include in each side.

Alternatively, you may want to write to the drupal developers to think of something about this problem. I am sure this 'mixed administration' scares a lot of newbies to leave the cms before trying it.

If Under administer>menus, disable "Content" & "Create content", but leave the sub-menu items enabled.

I found this idea at http://drupal.org/node/13887 .

yo, so I've encountered this problem recently.

which was cured after installing the advanced_menu module, I noticed that you can do the following:

Select the menu item you want to disable, ie. "create content".

>>go to advanced options
>>check off "Visible in tree views"
Defines whether the menu item should be visible in tree views. (Affects the enabled/disabled option directly)

Realize this is an old thread, but figured newbies like myself would benefit from this tip/module.

peace.

I can see what causes the problem with "create content" appearing for visitors who are not logged in. If you make any change to the settings of a menu item, the flags on the item (database column "type" in the table "menu") get set to make the item visible. This makes sense at first thought, because if a user is changing a setting then they obviously want to see the menu item. The name of the flag bit in the code is MENU_VISIBLE_IN_TREE. But the "create content" menu item has a special flag MENU_VISIBLE_IF_HAS_CHILDREN set, which makes it appear only if any of its children are visible to the current user. If you set MENU_VISIBLE_IN_TREE as well, then it appears for all users, ie when you are not logged in.

This a bug in menu.module. See http://drupal.org/node/58806.

Some workrounds are to reset the "create content" menu item, and the other suggestions above.

If you actually want to modify the properties on the "create content" menu item, a workround is to unset the MENU_VISIBLE_IN_TREE flag by modifying the database table manually (I used phpMyAdmin). The MENU_VISIBLE_IN_TREE flag has value 2, so you have to subtract 2 from the type column -- mine was 62 so I changed it to 60.

I should add that the reason I changed the "create content" menu item in the first place is that I was trying to change the position of this item in the menu by changing its weight. But actually its position is determined by its invisible parent (4, 1, 'node', 'content', '', 0, 16). So in the end I put "create content" back to its original values, and changed the parent's weight, by setting it directly in the table (4, 1, 'node', 'content', '', 8, 48) to avoid the bug mentioned above. You have to add 32 to the type (MENU_MODIFIED_BY_ADMIN flag) to make the database entry override the default.

Charles

Here is what I did to get rid of any item in the menu at the front end. I created a new block "Editor". Then I configured it so that this block will only be visible on the backend with the setting "Show only on listed pages" and the pathes (each on a new line) "admin/*", "admin", "node/add/*", "node/add" and so on . I moved "Create Content" and other menu items I don't want at the front end to this new menu. Seems to work fine. You can style this menu with CSS.

Mazso

If you only want the site administrator to have access to the 'create content' link, you can look inside the node.module, and do a search for 'create content'. You will quickly find a section that looks like:

$items[] = array('path' => 'node/add', 'title' => t('create content'),
      'callback' => 'node_page',
      'access' => user_access('access content'),
      'type' => MENU_ITEM_GROUPING,
      'weight' => 1);

Which you can change to

$items[] = array('path' => 'node/add', 'title' => t('create content'),
      'callback' => 'node_page',
      'access' => user_access('administer nodes'),
      'type' => MENU_ITEM_GROUPING,
      'weight' => 1);

Technically speaking, I suppose you could hack the node.module a bit more and create a way to allow any specified user roles to have access to the 'create content' menu item. You would search for 'function node_perm ()' and add an item (like 'create content') to the array beneath that line, then change 'adminster nodes' to the exact same wording you added to the array. You would then have to configure the access rules for each role in the access control section of your administrative menu.

I removed create content from the navigation menu. I created a new menu called Add Content and put create content and the content types under it. I put this menu in a new block that is only visible to the user types I specified. This worked well, and has the added value of making the add content menu items more visible to the appropriate users.

Often menus under 'Navigation' are only useful by the 'admin' user.
I you dont' want any of the child menus appearing for a 'regular' user, add some custom php code for 'Navigation' block as follows:

go here: admin/build/block, click 'Configure' in the Navigation row,
look for this section: "Show block on specific pages:", and add this code:

global $user;
if($user->uid==1)
return true;

Also select "Show if the following PHP code returns TRUE (PHP-mode, experts only)."

This works fine for me and i don't have to worry about menus like 'create content' in the visitor's pages

I have removed every sub link and press reset. It automatically disable create content.

nice. This is one thing I miss about joomla. Although hacking around with Drupal is rather fun.

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BTW the one above I used it for drupal 5.1

Going to try playing around with the code. BTW is there a good menu module that is like Joomla?

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I have got over this issue by using Menu Per Role module, so I can restrict the "Create Content" link to show for just authorized users, in the admin/menu.

Menu Per Role is here - http://drupal.org/project/menu_per_role
on the downside, you have to modify menu.inc to get it to work, just add some code. As I upgraded from 5.1 to 5.5, I couldn't figure this out, until i stumbled upon the menu per role project page page and realized/remembered I would have to re-patch this file to get my "create content" hidden like before.